One of the hardest transitions I have had to make in my professional life, and leadership development is the transition from being a doer to a leader, from being a creator into a creative lead. It’s not easy. Moving from being the person who “does” to the person who...

No matter who you are or how great of a leader you may be, there are seasons in your life and ministry where you will flirt with burnout. Over the course of years of working in the church, I have experienced symptoms and seasons of burnout. Painfully, I have even...

There are few things in the world more fragile than the psyche of people. Fragility is not isolated to the artist; everyone – at some time or another – has battled doubt, the feeling of inadequacy, and the fear of not being accepted or doing a good enough job. As...

It takes intentionality to live in our sweet spots. Organizations, teams, job or whatever is not created to set us up to be our best, they are set up to achieve an objective. That’s the nature of a position. So we have to be intentional to be our creative best by...

Part of the resistance that we face when we sit down to try and create comes from the voices that tell us all the reasons why we can’t create. The pressure to “be creative” often derails us from creating. We have to confront these voices to disqualify them. A few of...

“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. When I worked at Cross Point, roughly every six or eight weeks, we would hold a meeting for potential music team volunteers. This meeting...

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